For a long time, Chacchoben lay silent, known only to local farmers. Now Chacchoben, whose name means "red corn" is a special place for those visiting the Costa Maya and is open to the public every day of the week.

The jungle like setting of Chacchoben includes several species: zapotes, white fig trees, peppers, Ramons, chacas, cobrush, cedars and mahoganies as well as a number of song birds and toucans.

One of the excellent characteristics of the site is the presence of monolithic circular altars, one of which is preserved on the site.
 

History of Chacchoben: It is very probable that the first inhabitants of the region settled during the late the Pre-Classic period (200 before Christ), in small houses around permanently water bodies, like the Lagoon of the Eight and Chacchoben; nevertheless, it wasn't until the early Classic period when monuments began to be developed and the main governmental buildings were built. During the subsequent periods, the establishment continued to be inhabited, construction decreased around the year 700, culminating later with its virtual abandonment, again to be populated, although partially, during Delayed the post-classic period, which corresponds to fragments of efigies that have recovered.

Unfortunately only two hieroglyphic inscriptions with legible texts have been found, but there is reason to assume that Chacchoben had greater ties to some regional capital in the area of the Petén, judging by the architectonic style of its constructions, which present/display rounded corners in the earliest and cleared buildings in those of later construction with the typical socle adjustment, between street and slope in apron, as well as the recovered materials to the date, that present/display a clear similarity with the documented ones in sites of the north of Belize more than with sites of the north Yucatan